Cloud Spanner: Node.js Client
Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical, relational database service thatoffers transactional consistency at global scale, schemas, SQL (ANSI 2011 with extensions),and automatic, synchronous replication for high availability.
A comprehensive list of changes in each version may be found inthe CHANGELOG.
- Cloud Spanner Node.js Client API Reference
- Cloud Spanner Documentation
- github.com/googleapis/nodejs-spanner
Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the olderGoogle APIs Client Libraries, inClient Libraries Explained.
Table of contents:
Quickstart
Before you begin
- Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
- Enable billing for your project.
- Enable the Cloud Spanner API.
- Set up authentication with a service account so you can access theAPI from your local workstation.
Installing the client library
npm install @google-cloud/spannerUsing the client library
// Imports the Google Cloud client libraryconst {Spanner} = require('@google-cloud/spanner');// Creates a clientconst spanner = newSpanner({projectId});// Gets a reference to a Cloud Spanner instance and databaseconst instance = spanner.instance(instanceId);const database = instance.database(databaseId);// The query to executeconst query = { sql: 'SELECT 1',};// Execute a simple SQL statementconst [rows] = await database.run(query);console.log(`Query: ${rows.length} found.`);rows.forEach(row => console.log(row));Samples
Samples are in thesamples/ directory. Each sample'sREADME.md has instructions for running its sample.
| Sample | Source Code | Try it |
|---|---|---|
| Backups-cancel | source code | ![]() |
| Backups-create-with-encryption-key | source code | ![]() |
| Backups-create | source code | ![]() |
| Backups-delete | source code | ![]() |
| Backups-get-database-operations | source code | ![]() |
| Backups-get-operations | source code | ![]() |
| Backups-get | source code | ![]() |
| Backups-restore-with-encryption-key | source code | ![]() |
| Backups-restore | source code | ![]() |
| Backups-update | source code | ![]() |
| Backups | source code | ![]() |
| Batch | source code | ![]() |
| CRUD | source code | ![]() |
| Creates a new database with a specific default leader | source code | ![]() |
| Database-create-with-encryption-key | source code | ![]() |
| Database-create-with-version-retention-period | source code | ![]() |
| Gets the schema definition of an existing database | source code | ![]() |
| Gets the default leader option of an existing database | source code | ![]() |
| Updates the default leader of an existing database | source code | ![]() |
| Datatypes | source code | ![]() |
| DML | source code | ![]() |
| Get-commit-stats | source code | ![]() |
| Gets the instance config metadata for the configuration nam6 | source code | ![]() |
| Creates a new value-storing index | source code | ![]() |
| Creates a new index | source code | ![]() |
| Executes a read-only SQL query using an existing index. | source code | ![]() |
| Reads data using an existing storing index. | source code | ![]() |
| Read data using an existing index. | source code | ![]() |
| Indexing | source code | ![]() |
| Instance-with-processing-units | source code | ![]() |
| Instance | source code | ![]() |
| Lists all databases on the selected instance | source code | ![]() |
| Lists all the available instance configs for the selected project. | source code | ![]() |
| Numeric-add-column | source code | ![]() |
| Numeric-query-parameter | source code | ![]() |
| Numeric-update-data | source code | ![]() |
| Queryoptions | source code | ![]() |
| Quickstart | source code | ![]() |
| Sets a request tag for a single query | source code | ![]() |
| Rpc-priority | source code | ![]() |
| Schema | source code | ![]() |
| Struct | source code | ![]() |
| Timestamp | source code | ![]() |
| Executes a read/write transaction with transaction and request tags | source code | ![]() |
| Transaction | source code | ![]() |
TheCloud Spanner Node.js Client API Reference documentationalso contains samples.
Supported Node.js Versions
Our client libraries follow theNode.js release schedule.Libraries are compatible with all currentactive andmaintenance versions ofNode.js.
Client libraries targeting some end-of-life versions of Node.js are available, andcan be installed via npmdist-tags.The dist-tags follow the naming conventionlegacy-(version).
Legacy Node.js versions are supported as a best effort:
- Legacy versions will not be tested in continuous integration.
- Some security patches may not be able to be backported.
- Dependencies will not be kept up-to-date, and features will not be backported.
Legacy tags available
legacy-8: install client libraries from this dist-tag for versionscompatible with Node.js 8.
Versioning
This library followsSemantic Versioning.
This library is considered to beGeneral Availability (GA). This means itis stable; the code surface will not change in backwards-incompatible waysunless absolutely necessary (e.g. because of critical security issues) or withan extensive deprecation period. Issues and requests againstGA librariesare addressed with the highest priority.
More Information:Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages
Contributing
Contributions welcome! See theContributing Guide.
Please note that thisREADME.md, thesamples/README.md,and a variety of configuration files in this repository (including.nycrc andtsconfig.json)are generated from a central template. To edit one of these files, make an editto its template in thisdirectory.
License
Apache Version 2.0
SeeLICENSE
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Last updated 2025-10-30 UTC.
